Path of Peril Wasserman Marlie Parker
Path of Peril Wasserman Marlie Parker Would the assassins plotting to kill Theodore Roosevelt on his visit to the Panama Canal succeed? White House secretary Maurice Latta, thrilled to accompany the…
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Path of Peril Wasserman Marlie Parker
Would the assassins plotting to kill Theodore Roosevelt on his visit to the Panama Canal succeed? White House secretary Maurice Latta, thrilled to accompany the President, could not anticipate the adventures and dangers ahead. Until this trip, no president while in office had ever traveled abroad.
Along the way he learns about his own strengths-what he never imagined he could do, and what he discovers he can't do.Theodore Roosevelt did visit Panama in 1906, accompanied by White House staffer Maurice Latta. Latta befriends watchful secret service agents, ambitious journalists, and anxious First Lady Edith Roosevelt on their hot and humid trip, where he observes a country teeming with inequalities and abounding in opportunities. Interweaving the stories of real-life characters with fictional ones, Path of Peril imagines what the newspapers feared to report